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Inches to feet.

Convert in to ft and ft to in. Type in either box and the other follows. Twelve inches to the foot. This gives decimal feet — for the usual "6 foot 1" form, the feet-and-inches converter keeps the remainder as whole inches.

in → ftExact definition
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Inches to feet — common values, to 6 significant figures.
inft
6 in0.5 ft
12 in1 ft
24 in2 ft
36 in3 ft
48 in4 ft
60 in5 ft
66 in5.5 ft
72 in6 ft
78 in6.5 ft
84 in7 ft
1 in=0.08333333333 ft 1 ft=12 in

Definitions

  • The inch has been exactly 25.4 mm since the 1959 international yard and pound agreement. Screen and wheel sizes are still quoted in it.
  • The foot is exactly 12 inches, or 0.3048 m. Aviation still uses it for altitude worldwide.
  • This conversion is exact by definition. 1 in = 0.08333333333 ft.
  • The metre is SI; every imperial and US customary length here is defined exactly in terms of it by the 1959 international yard and pound agreement.

How it works

One direction multiplies and the other divides by the same number, so nothing is lost by going back and forth.

The value passes through m, the unit every other length & distance unit on the site is defined against, rather than a number written into this page on its own. That is why the figure here, the figure in the table above and the general length & distance converter always agree.

Display precision limits significant figures rather than decimal places, because one fixed number of decimals is useless across a range this wide. Very large and very small results switch to scientific notation with a proper superscript exponent. The editable box always holds a plain number at full working precision, so you can carry on from either side.

Common questions this answers: how many feet in an inch (0.0833333), how many inches in a foot (12), and what 72 in is in feet (6 ft).

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